Blogging Straight To The Point.

2007 December 10
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by Costa

There are blogs and then there are blogs. Some blogs give me the information I want from the first sentence. Some blogs, I fail to get their message even till the last word.

Like reading a novel that keeps rumbling on, chapter after chapter with no relevancy to the story line, I get bored with blogs like this. The reason why people, or at least me, are reading blogs is because we want something. It may be information. It could be for laughs or simply because I enjoy the way an article is written.

The problem is because some bloggers tend to lengthen their post unnecessarily with theories and quotes before going into what they want to say. Maybe they feel a long post is a good post. I mean, you believe you have a good tip or at least you think it is good topic, so by all means just go ahead and tell your tip. If it is indeed a good tip, people will know. There is no need to write 2 or 3 paragraphs of introduction and arguments to justify your “good” tip. If you do that, people start getting skeptical. They will suspect you are trying to push something to them that they do not want.

The people who reads our blogs are not primary school students that need to be led by their hands in order for them to understand what you are trying to say. You know why students prefers reference books to their normal school text books when it comes to studying for their exams? It’s because reference books only gives them the important and specific points, whereas the text books is full of text and explanations which makes it very boring.

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2007 December 11

True. The only thing long should only be fXreplays.. :-P

*runs and hide*

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2007 December 11

This pretty much happens to every blogger or freelancer, but doing it less does help :)

-Mike

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2007 December 12

I believe there are 2 sides to a coin here. But I do agree with the quotes and etc part of your post.

I say 2 sides to a coin in comment of assuming your readers do not need any form of guidance when reading.

Depending on who is your targeted reader, your writing style needs to fit them. In other words, if you’re writing for primary school students then you write in simple English. If I wrote about geek stuff, I’d have more geek jargon.

For your blog, your readers would mainly have to average older than 15 years old to understand some of these things. :P

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